Lecture 24: Dada & Surrealism

Announcements:

PMA visit
WATU eval. (Isabel)
images on web
exams at end of lecture - Do NOT ask TAs about them until after Wednesday. I will discuss the exams on Monday.
lectures remaining: M,W & M, W, F
Final Exam - May 8th - format to be discussed on April 24, Friday.

Slide List

Leonardo DaVinci Last Supper - popularization of conservation
Delacroix: {Upcoming at the PMA in the Fall} - Fantin-Latour Homage to Delacroix
- Jacob with the Angel - mural at St. Sulpice / Death of Sardanapalus, 1827.
Complexity of Modernism:
- Nolde Last Supper, 1909 /Kandinsky Study for Composition VII, 1913.
Art of the Mind: Non-objective / anti-matter
- Malevich Suprematist Composition, 1915 /White on White, 1918.
- Mondrian Composition VII, 1913 / Composition, 1927.
Dada:
- Picasso Le Demoiselles d'Avignon, 1907 / Duchamp Chocolate Grinder, 1913.
Surrealism: Chance, Dreams, the Unexpected
- Arp Collage Arranged According to Laws of Chance, 1916 / Masson Automatic Drawing.
- Dali Persistence of Memory, 1931 / Miro Head of a woman, 1938.
- Meret Oppenheim Object (fur-covered cup), 1936 / Magritte La Viol, 1934.
- Calder circus /Calderberry Bush, 1932.
- Picasso Head of a Woman, 1930/ Guitar
- Brancusi Egg (ovid)/ Bird / Bird in Space {Simplification}
- Sheeler Church Street El /Leger Le Grand Dejeuner, 1921/Matisse The Joy of Life, 1905.